How Did Jeremy Bentham Impact The Criminal Justice System
Jeremy Bentham's ideas throughout his life has had an extreme impact on today's criminal justice system and how it works. Whether or not some of his ideas thrived throughout history, some ideas we still use today such as the panopticon prison design that established a great advantage in monitoring the inmates, the utilitarianism ethical system of making a judgment based on the outcome of the act, developing a theory on how to punish people without having to use revenge but helping the offender get back into society and living a law abiding life, and even equality for the middle class all the way to women's suffrage. Bentham had sympathy for human life and wanted to see the positive in someone's character. There would be some differences as